Revisiting politicization: Political advisers and public servants in Westminster systems

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dc.citation.issue3
dc.citation.volume21
dc.contributor.authorEichbaum C
dc.contributor.authorShaw RH
dc.date.available2008-07
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractIn recent times much has been made of the threat some argue is posed by political advisers to the impartiality of the Westminster civil service. Drawing on survey of senior New Zealand civil servants, this article examines the degree to which political advisers are perceived as a threat to civil service neutrality and describes the form taken by that threat as variously perceived. On the evidence reported, it is suggested that traditional understandings of "politicization" need to be reconceptualized if they are to fully account for the nature of the relationship between political and civil service advisers. To existing conceptions of politicization, therefore, the article proposes adding another: "administrative politicization," allowing for different gradations of politicization to be identified, and enabling a nuanced assessment of the nature and extent of a risk to civil service neutrality that, the data suggest, is not as great as is sometimes alleged. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
dc.description.publication-statusPublished
dc.format.extent337 - 362
dc.identifierhttp://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000257385300002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=c5bb3b2499afac691c2e3c1a83ef6fef
dc.identifier.citationGOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION, 2008, 21 (3), pp. 337 - 362
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1468-0491.2008.00403.x
dc.identifier.elements-id26992
dc.identifier.issn0952-1895
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals
dc.relation.isPartOfGOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION
dc.subject.anzsrc1605 Policy and Administration
dc.subject.anzsrc1606 Political Science
dc.subject.anzsrc1899 Other Law and Legal Studies
dc.titleRevisiting politicization: Political advisers and public servants in Westminster systems
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of People, Enviroment and Planning
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